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APPARATUS FOR TRANSPERRING METAL FROM ONE SET OF ROLLS TO ANOTHER.

No. 391,361. Patented Oct. 16', 1888.

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D. EVANS & A. HARRISON. APPARATUS FOR TRANSPERRING METAL FROM ONE SET OF ROLLS TO ANOTHER.

No. 391,361. Patented Oct. 16, 1888.

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DAVID EVANS AND ARTHUR HARRISON, OF BARROW-IN-FURNESS, COUNTY OF LANCASTER, ENGLAND.

APPARATUS FOR TRANSFERRING METAL FROM ONE SET OF ROLLS TO ANOTHER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 391,361, dated October 16,1888.

Application filed July 31. 1888. Serial No. 281.505. (No model.) Patented in England March 23, 1888, No. 4,490, and in Belgium June 19, 1888, No. 82,257.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, DAVID EVANS and ARTHUR HARRISON, subjects of the Queen of Great Britain, bot-h residing at Barrowin- Furness, in the county of Lancaster, England, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Transferring Metal from One Set of Rolls to Another, (for which we have obtained a patent in Belgium, dated June 19, 1888, No.

to 82,257, and have made application for patent in Great Britain, No. 4,490, dat ed March 23, 1888,) of which the following is a specification. Our invention relates to apparatus whereby plates, rails, girders, or other forms undergoing rolling are transferred from one set of rolls to another set in the same line with them. For this purpose we mount the receiving-table, which is provided with rollers, as

usual, and which may incline upward from the rolls upon two trucks, to which the table is connected by perch pins, each of these trucks having a pair of wheels set at an angle, so that the truck can run in a circular path along the floor of the rolling-mill. In a line 2 midway between the two sets of rolls, and at right angles to their axes, we provide two vertical shafts projecting above the mill-floor, the distance apart of those two shafts being equal to the distance between the perch-pins 0 of the two trucks above mentioned. On the vertical shafts under the floor are chainwheels connected by a chain, so that they turn cquably together, one of the shafts being driven in the one or the other direction by 5 chain or other gear worked by a pair of horizontal hydraulic cylinders situated beneath the floor. Each of the vertical shafts has a horizontal radial arm projecting from it and attached to one of the trucks. As the shafts 4.0 are made to turn half-round equably together, their two arms sweep the trucks round in semicircular paths, and these carry the table always parallel to itself from its position facing the one set of rolls to a position facing the 5 other set. Thus metal received on the table from the one set of rolls is transferred by the table to be fed to the other set.

Figure 1 of the accompanying drawings is a plan, and Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section, of

apparatus,according to our invention,applied to two' sets of ro1ls,A and B, having their axes in the same straight line, or nearly so.

0 is the movable table, which has jointed to it by vertical perch-pins two trucks, D D. These trucks have wheels d, set at an angle, 5 so that each truck can run in a circular path along the mill-floor. Each truck D D is rigidly connected by an arm, E E, with a vertical shaft, F F. The two shafts F F have fixed on them chain-wheels connected by a chain, G, and one of the shafts, F, has fixed on it another chain-wheel, from which a chain passes round pulleys H H, mounted on the plungers of two hydraulic cylinders, K K. The chain-wheels and hydraulic cylinders are situated in a space formed under the floor of the mill, the floor over this space being, as shown in Fig. 1, supposed to be removed to show the apparatus below. I

Then it is desired to transfer metal lodged on the table 0 from the one set of rolls, B, to the other set, A, the valves of the hydraulic cylinders K K are shifted, so that the plunger of pulley H is caused to protrude, while that of H retreats. The shafts F F are thus 7 caused to make a half-revolntion,and the arms E E sweep the trucks D D round in semicircular paths, thus transferring the table 0, moving parallel to itself, to the position indicated by the dotted lines (3, facing the rolls A.

Having thus described the nature of our invention and the best means we know for carrying the same into practical effect, we claim- Apparatus for transferring metal from one set of rolls to another, consisting of the metalcarrying table mounted by perch-pins on a pair of trucks at the ends of two radial arms, which, by means of chain-gear worked by draulically, are caused to sweep the trucks round in semicircular paths, thus transferring the table from aposition facing the one set of rolls to a position facing the other set. substantially as described, and illustrated by the drawings.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 13th day of July, A. D. 1888.

DAVID EVANS. ARTHUR HARRISON.

lVitnesses:

ARTHUR E. NALDER,

Solicitor, 3a;wow-fwFurness.

AsnBUnNna SHARPE, J12,

His clerk. 

